Gangster Bugsy Siegel, who works for Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano, goes to Los Angeles and instantly falls in love with Virginia Hill, a tough-talking Hollywood starlet. The two meet for the first time when Bugsy visits actor George Raft on the set of ''Manpower (1941 film)''. He buys a house in Beverly Hills, planning to stay there while his wife and two daughters remain in Scarsdale, New York.